Linus Torvalds released Linux 5.19, the last kernel in the 5.x series. Among its many features is support for the “LoongArch” architecture (similar to MIPS or RISC-V, intended for the Chinese market), Zstd-compressed firmware files, and various fixes for Retbleed, the latest speculative execution vulnerability.
With the announcement of Linux 5.19, came the opening of the merge window, for what will evidently become Linux